Numbers 31:2
Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 15:15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
Genesis 25:8And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.
Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.
Numbers 20:26And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people.
Numbers 25:14Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites.
Numbers 27:13And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was:
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:2-7
The Slaughter of the Midianites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. 3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian. 4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. 5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe,… Read the whole commentary →